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"the machine that measures stress levels says that she was more stressed recalling specific details of sexual assault during police interrogation than she was from being calmly asked her name during calibration. clearly, this means she was lying" lie detectors are bullshit

@nessimmersion @ReemAmirIbrahim en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c… Adjusted for purchasing parity the UK is pretty much in the middle of health spending vs life expectancy...

@ReemAmirIbrahim Why is no one in the UK asking how 1/2 the countries in Europe spend less per cap on healthcare than UK yet achieve better results. Is it because the have a 1st world system not a 2nd world NHS with infinity lessons learned; statista.com/statistics/128…

“The NHS is under funded”. Right.

@ReemAmirIbrahim Hmm; £12b to £150b. Inflation would be £12b to £250b over the same time period... With an aging population and I suspect significantly more expectations re healthcare...

@TheGriftReport I suspect this is legally closer to people going 'look, theres a skip' and throwing anything they want rid of into said skip (that a neighbour is paying for disposal of) than throwing stuff into a public bin.

@TheGriftReport I will note googling suggests non-recyclables put in a random recycling bin (or recyclables in wrong recycling bin) Contamination potentially then means they can't recycle anything. And technically the bins weren't public being attached to specific properties.

🚨 COUNCIL MADNESS: FATHER OF TWO SLAPPED WITH £1,000 FLY-TIPPING FINE… FOR PUTTING AN EMPTY ENVELOPE IN A LITTER BIN! Nidas Ratkevicius, 47, from Hounslow, dropped a single empty envelope into a public bin. Council traced it back to him via his name and address and hit him with a massive £1,000 penalty notice for “fly-tipping”. He said: “It’s like taking bread from my family… £1,000 is huge. I thought it was a joke.” Hounslow Council defended its “zero tolerance” policy, claiming fly-tipping costs £4 million a year in taxpayers’ money. Fine has now been paused.

@AlltheWay1964 @USA_Polling And lets be honest; They should have significant control and be able to block this; What they shouldn't be able to do is block said Pastor running as an independant (or starting his own political party).

@USA_Polling It’s times like this I wish the parties had as much control over choosing their candidates that people believe they do.

Are we for real dude

@aeroladyny @libsoftiktok Reverse engineering encryption from a key? Well that means the entire system should be banned and anyone who authorized it jailed... Generally encryption is only regarded as secure if its design and (preferably) implementation is publicly available.

While the stolen key was configured only for training databases, officials expressed concern that someone with technical knowledge could potentially reverse engineer the encryption and reintroduce it into a voter registration kiosk for malicious purposes. TRAINING PURPOSES. Tell the WHOLE STORY.

The seat for Florida House District 87 flipped from Red to Blue with just 800 votes. This man who allegedly stole election equipment was volunteering for that election. We need a full investigation and recount!!!! RIGGED

@NoBotGermany @WallStreetApes @Brookerteejones Note also discussions on social security records for people aged 120+ Ignoring legislation on recording someone as dead in said records - Organisations were not allowed to simply go 'they are too old' so declare them deceased...

@WallStreetApes @Brookerteejones Placeholder birthdates (like 1/1/1900) are often used in databases when original records are incomplete. Exhaustive audits consistently show that 'dead people voting' is statistically negligible and not a sign of widespread fraud. Data entry errors are not illegal votes.

Nick Shirley’s mom found a woman who is 126 and somehow is STILL VOTING in California elections “According to this list, this person voted in the last presidential election, and this is why we need identification when we go to vote” @Brookerteejones “Most likely these people are not alive, but they're still voting — We need voter ID here in America to actually save our voting systems and to have accurate elections.”

@WallStreetApes @Brookerteejones Hmm; Whats the betting they were born on 1st Jan, 1900 according to the records being looked at. Or Unix time epoch... (i.e. zero value for time field...)

@michaelblackcab What is wrong in this video is a design issue; Signed/marked contraflow cycle lane, but road narrowing at stop line. The fix is move the stop line back from the junction to leave plenty of room for contraflow cycling.

I wonder what they will say I did wrong in this one ?

@Vertex_Alpha @KobeissiLetter Note that International law relies on mutual benefits and threat of war. Iran is threatened with war anyway; And long term sanctions mean they likely don't benefit from international agreements to Straits being open for trade.

@Vertex_Alpha @KobeissiLetter The better question is can anyone stop them? And I suspect the answer is no. Cheaper to pay low tolls to go through the strait than conquer a good chunk of Iran to prevent them lobbing cheap ordinance at passing ships...

BREAKING: Iran has drafted legislation to create the "Hormuz Law" which is expected create a formal toll system for the Strait of Hormuz. Preliminary details include: 1. Hormuz Law to introduce fees on navigation and pollution in the Strait of Hormuz 2. Draft legislation also includes creation of a "regional fund" 3. The move is seen as an attempt to formalize long-term tolls on global shipping routes 4. The US has called these tolls on the Strait of Hormuz both "illegal" and "unacceptable" The Strait of Hormuz situation is becoming even more complicated.

@SaferRoadsYorks This I don't mind so much given it correctly has the car(/driver) as active entity. Rather than 'Man held on suspision of attempted murder after pedestrians in collision with car'... (which has an implication that pedestrians were active party - i.e. they walked into car)

Man held on suspicion of attempted murder after 'car' hits pedestrians in Derby. Shouldn't that be 'driver'? Cars generally don't run over pedestrians by themselves. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

@walker_farm @SamaHoole On the one hand, Keto has its issues. On the other, I suspect most aren't dropping enough carbs for ketosis. (note that from research, low carb diets have the highest success rates, including being more effective than extremely low carb diets (required for keto...))

1st md visit after losing weight: how did you do it? keto. lecture on dying of a heart attack and unsustainability next visit: how did you do it? (guess he didn't want to note keto last time) cut out crap carbs and upped protein and watched quality of fats. awesome. that, btw, was my last MD visit.

Doctor: "Your type 2 diabetes markers have completely normalised." Patient: "Yes." Doctor: "And you've lost 22 kilos." Patient: "Yes." Doctor: "The blood pressure medication..." Patient: "I stopped taking it. Blood pressure is 118 over 76." Doctor: "You stopped without telling me?" Patient: "I told you I was going to change my diet." Doctor: "I didn't think it would... I mean, type 2 is chronic." Patient: "Apparently not always." Doctor: "What did you actually do?" Patient: "Removed sugar and seed oils. Ate meat. Walked." Doctor: "That's it?" Patient: "That's it." Pause. Doctor: "We're told it's a progressive condition." Patient: "It progressed in the wrong direction for them." He kept the file open a long time before he typed anything.

@SimonMcCoyTV The actual issue is tailgating. Brake lights come on because of slight slowing so driver behind slams on to avoid collision. Note that the brake lights triggering easily is also a result of tailgating because they have to trigger on any slowing because tailgater can't adapt...

Have noticed a lot more random braking on motorways lately. It’s dangerous and causes others to brake. Is it because drivers of electric vehicles using regenerative braking don’t realise their brakes lights come on when they take their foot off the accelerator? Just a thought….

@iDenville @GuntherEagleman Of course the reality isn't that we are bad at it; Its that the software engineering to secure voting machines is comparable to engineering aircraft to cope with random teenagers (let alone hostile nations) having (and using) free access to state of the art anti-aircraft weapons

@iDenville @GuntherEagleman Last I checked, the people who were originally pushing voting machines had a republican bias... (Though for my (and every other expert I have ever spoken to) opinion see: xkcd.com/2030/)

🚨 JUST IN: Republicans are DEMANDING a full recount in Florida after a Republican-held seat FLIPPED to Democrats by just 800 votes! A Democrat elections office volunteer got CAUGHT stealing election materials. More Democrat cheating exposed.

@ianonabeach @SimonCalder I suspect the issue is that they can flag and show likely fraud on the basis of frequent refunds, but proving it to allow prosecution is a much harder problem. Buying and refunding tickets regularly isn't illegal, just strange...

Surely anyone doing this repeatedly would be flagged by the refund system? One or two refunds per year seems plausible, but if someone is getting a ticket refunded daily/weekly, surely that pattern can be spotted quickly and action taken? Or as stated by literally everyone, if you want to protect the revenue, higher some actual staff!

Rail ticket fraud. At last, a gaping loophole in the system will close, from Wednesday 1 April. Currently unscrupulous passengers buy an Anytime or Off-peak ticket, make the journey, and if the ticket isn't clipped or scanned they claim a refund, less £5. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

@wireinthebrain @CitizenUddin @EalingCouncil Combined with the abuse you get from drivers who have to slow down because your walking down the street instead of on the footway...

@CitizenUddin @EalingCouncil Try getting a mobility scooter, wheelchair or child’s buggy through some of those gaps.

Northfield Road W13 @EalingCouncil still allow drivers to illegally park on the pavement on this street without penalty. "But it's a quiet little side road". Irrelevant. Pavements are for people, not tin boxes.

@JMC_Starbug @GriftReport See the attitude of an awful lot of respondants to this thread. Realise that there is an obligation on drivers to mitigate hazards. See how many twats think that the rider being a twat means they can drive into them...

@GriftReport They will still be able to claim against the car’s insurers, no doubt.

British kids are now copying the trend of riding their bikes into traffic and swerving at the last minute, this is going to end in tears.